Re: [PATCH rdma-next v1 0/2] IB device rename support

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On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:54:33PM -0400, Aaron Knister wrote:

> While I have nothing of technical value to contribute here, I just wanted to
> say thank you! This is something I've long desired. We've been through one
> too many BIOS updates that mucked with PCI device enumeration and in
> environments with multiple RDMA adapters, particularly when some of the RDMA
> adapters face storage devices and different fabrics entirely, it can make
> for a real treat of a maintenance window. This is especially true if they
> all use the same driver. I admit I'm making this assumption that these
> changes would allow one to craft udev rules to create persistent device
> mappings. Is that indeed the case?

Ultimately, but we need to have a standard naming convention to make
that possible (eg like netdev uses with enp0s31f6 type names)

Jason



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